Kicker KQ30 30-Band Pre-Amp/Equalizer

Thirty bands of 12dB cut or boost at 1/3-octave spacing mean ultimate frequency control in stereo or mono. A scorching 9-volt output lets you pour on the signal to your amps.Adjustable input and output controls for each channel add more control, and fast-acting clip indicators keep things from getting too crazy.
30 Bands at 1/3 Octave Spacing As stated above in the Introduction, a 1/3 octave equalizer gives you all the
control necessary to adjust your sound system for a smooth response or to dial it in to your ears liking. The KQ30
gives you the ISO standard 30 bands at 1/3 octave spacing from 20 Hz to 20 KHz.
12 dB Boost or Cut At each of the 30 1/3 octave spaced controls you can boost or cut the intensity of the signal
by up to 12 decibels (dB). Plenty of control and then some since most systems typically need no more than 6
dB of boost or cut to get things dialed in.
High Voltage Pre-amp There are quite a variety of head units on the market today, not to mention if you are
using a line driver or pre-amplifier in your system. The KQ30 will work with an audio input signal as little as 500 mv
up to a mind numbing 9 Volts! Plenty of range to work with anything you can throw at it. At the same time it can
deliver a full 9 volts of audio output to send down the line to your crossovers or amplifiers.
Separate Left and Right Input Controls For the best possible sound quality and least amount of noise you
want to get your KQ30 matched up to your head unit, the separate left and right input sensitivity controls let you
do just that. Being separate allows you to tweak input channel balancing as well.
Separate Left and Right Output Controls To minimize noise in your system you want to pass as much
audio signal voltage as you can down the line to the next component. Too much and you will cause undesired distortion...
not enough and your system will sound thin and not play to it's full potential. The left and right output
controls allow you to find just the right amount of signal to accomplish this and do any channel balancing tasks
required at this stage.
Separate Left and Right Input Clipping LED's Clipping the input of your pre-amp components is not a
good thing when you want clean sound. The LED indicators are a great tool to help you in setting up the input gain
controls on your KQ30. These indicators will blink as you get within 3 dB of clipping the input section of your unit.
Separate Left and Right Output Clipping LED's Just as with the input, you do not want to clip the output
of your KQ30. The output LED indicators will blink as you get within 3 dB of driving the KQ30 into clipping to help
you with setting up your eq.
Mono / Stereo Selector The KQ30 is a stereo equalizer and will do its magic on both the left and right channels
at the same time. For those 'Livin' Loud' tweakers who want to have separate left and right controls, you can use
two units and equalize the channels independently. Just grab two units, flip the switches to Mono, and you are
ready to go!. In Mono mode the KQ30 will sum whatever is input to both the left and right channels into a mono
signal and then pass this signal to both the left and right outputs. See the diagrams further in this manual for
details.
EQ / Bypass Switch Whether your tweaking your system by ear to get that sound you want or using a real time
analyzer for an ultra smooth response curve, you'll find times when you want to compare what you had...to what
you got. This is what the EQ /Bypass switch does. When in bypass mode it sends the input signal directly to the
output jacks without any equalization. So with a simple press of the switch you can compare life before the
KQ30...and after!
Operating voltage: 11 to 16 volts DC
Chassis Fuse: 2A mini-ATC
Audio Signal:
Minimum input voltage: 500 mV RMS
Maximum input voltage: 9 Volts RMS
Maximum output voltage: 9 Volts RMS
SNR (signal to noise), A Weighted: Re: 9 Volts / 120 dB
Channel Separation: Re: 9 Volts / 80 dB
Equalization: 30 bands
Width: 10.25 in / 26.04 cm
Depth: 7.50 in / 19.05 cm
Height: 1.125 in / 2.86 cm
UPC: 713034013846